Sell Me A Struggle

I'm sure on some level everyone feels the same way about pop music. It's designed to be immediately and intensely enjoyable much like soft drinks and fast food. And that's great, the world should never be deprived of such simple and human pleasures. But pop music also depicts a dynamic vision of the zeitgeist. It varies from place to place but generally the enforced media hegemony remains the same or similar globally from place to place.

Which is fine, this isn't a globalization arguement necessarily. But I can't help but observe growing desire for romanticism being subverted as soon as it's expressed. It's like capitalist mother doting that sucks any sort of genuine spirit out of expression. There is no struggle and no excitement. The genuine spirit of living, loving and expressing one's self has become so automated in the 20th century that now we actually believe that the façade representing it is real!

I think that's the major hurdle of the early 21st century. We have to get over this kafkaesque control of perception about or mental environments. We are just as much what we eat as we are what we see, hear and ultimately feel. It's just as important to know the origins of and diversify what you eat as much as it is the experiences you take in.

I think it's this synergy of mental and physical health that will ultimately keep us on the straight-and-narrow as an evolving species.